You who are in power have only the means that money produces – we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
ALEXANDRE DUMASPure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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In this world, all–men, women, and kings–must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
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That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
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When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
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Edmond Dantes: I don’t believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn’t matter, He believes in you.
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Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.
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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
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Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.
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Haste is a poor counselor.
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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
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The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow – so arbitrary are these transient laws.
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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It is only the dead who do not return.
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Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.
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If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
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To save a man and thereby to spare a father’s agony and a mother’s feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.
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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.
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Moral wounds have this peculiarity – they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
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